From: Mahad Ibrahim <mahad.ibrahim.dev@gmail.com>
To: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mahad Ibrahim <mahad.ibrahim.dev@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] lkdtm: use kmalloc() instead of __get_free_page
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:02:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260722230246.2869-1-mahad.ibrahim.dev@gmail.com> (raw)
lkdtm_debugfs_entry and direct_entry use __get_free_page to allocate a
temporary buffer, perform copy_from_user to get the crashtype name,
strim() to strip whitespace and find_crashtype to find the corresponding
crashtype that is being requested.
The lkdtm_debugfs_read uses __get_free_page to allocate a temporary
buffer to store all the available crashtypes, and then copy it to
userspace.
The buffers that are allocated can be allocated with kmalloc as there is
nothing special that requires a struct page, or the page allocator.
kmalloc() additionally provides a better API that doesn't require ugly
casts which obfuscate the code and kfree does not need to know the size
of the freed object.
Replace use of __get_free_page() with kmalloc().
Signed-off-by: Mahad Ibrahim <mahad.ibrahim.dev@gmail.com>
---
drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c
index ededa32d6744..01bebcb33bd4 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c
@@ -236,11 +236,11 @@ static ssize_t lkdtm_debugfs_entry(struct file *f,
if (count >= PAGE_SIZE)
return -EINVAL;
- buf = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+ buf = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buf)
return -ENOMEM;
if (copy_from_user(buf, user_buf, count)) {
- free_page((unsigned long) buf);
+ kfree(buf);
return -EFAULT;
}
/* NULL-terminate and remove enter */
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ static ssize_t lkdtm_debugfs_entry(struct file *f,
strim(buf);
crashtype = find_crashtype(buf);
- free_page((unsigned long)buf);
+ kfree(buf);
if (!crashtype)
return -EINVAL;
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ static ssize_t lkdtm_debugfs_read(struct file *f, char __user *user_buf,
ssize_t out;
char *buf;
- buf = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+ buf = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (buf == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ static ssize_t lkdtm_debugfs_read(struct file *f, char __user *user_buf,
out = simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, off,
buf, n);
- free_page((unsigned long) buf);
+ kfree(buf);
return out;
}
@@ -313,11 +313,11 @@ static ssize_t direct_entry(struct file *f, const char __user *user_buf,
if (count < 1)
return -EINVAL;
- buf = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+ buf = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buf)
return -ENOMEM;
if (copy_from_user(buf, user_buf, count)) {
- free_page((unsigned long) buf);
+ kfree(buf);
return -EFAULT;
}
/* NULL-terminate and remove enter */
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ static ssize_t direct_entry(struct file *f, const char __user *user_buf,
strim(buf);
crashtype = find_crashtype(buf);
- free_page((unsigned long) buf);
+ kfree(buf);
if (!crashtype)
return -EINVAL;
--
2.54.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-22 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-22 23:02 Mahad Ibrahim [this message]
2026-07-22 23:42 ` [PATCH] lkdtm: use kmalloc() instead of __get_free_page Mahad Ibrahim
2026-07-23 3:47 ` Kees Cook
2026-07-23 8:45 ` David Laight
2026-07-23 9:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
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